Tombstone Tuesday: Joseph and Anna Kargman, Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY*

Here lies

Yosef son of Mosche

Died 21 Tevet 5691

May his soul be bound in eternal life

JOSEPH

KARGMAN

Died Jan 10, 1931

Age 73 Years

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Beloved

FATHER

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Here lies

Chana daughter of David

Died 21 Nisan 5701

May her soul be bound in eternal life

ANNA

KARGMAN

Died April 18, 1941

Age 85 Years

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Beloved

MOTHER

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Joseph and Chana Kargman, Labun natives, arrived at Ellis Island on 1 August 1921 after a ten-day voyage on the S.S. Zeeland from Antwerp, Belgium.[1] They and their daughters Feiga (age 23) and Sura (18) were held for less than a day (they received supper and breakfast) for special inquiry on the suspicion they were likely to become public charges. Nevertheless, they ultimately joined their son Samuel, who had already been in the United States for more than ten years.[2] 

Less than a year later, Joseph visited the Kings County Supreme Court and declared his intention to become a citizen.[3] He apparently did not finish the process.

As reported in the 1930 U.S. census, Joseph and Anna lived in an apartment at 208 Floyd Street in Brooklyn, New York.[4] While he identified himself as retired in his 1922 declaration of intention to naturalize, in the 1930 he is a Hebrew teacher. 

After Joseph's death, Anna lived until her death with her daughter Sarah, son-in-law Samuel Kopoloff, and grandchildren Albert and Marilyn at 734 Snediker Avenue, Brooklyn.[5] 

Notes: 
1. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 13 Dec 2010), manifest, S.S. Zeeland, Antwerp to New York, arriving 1 August 1921, list 16 (handwritten), lines 5-8, Josef, Chana, Sura and Feiga Kargman, citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 3001.
2. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 16 April 2011), manifest, S.S. President Grant, Hamburg to New York, arriving 17 April 1911, list 2, line 11, Simon Kargman [indexed as Liman Kargman], citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 1662.
3. Joseph Kargman declaration of intention (1922), declaration volume 286, page 276, number 142776, Kings County Supreme Court, New York. 
4. Kings County, New York, 1930 U.S. Census, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 320, dwelling 105, family 332, sheet 16A, Joseph and Anna Kargman; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 December 2010), NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1503.  
5. Kings County, New York, 1940 U.S. Census, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-142, household 55, sheet 3A, Hanna Kargman; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 February 2015), NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 2550.

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*The First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association, a New York City landsmanshaft group for immigrants from the town of Lubin (Yiddish name), also known as Labun, Russian Empire, purchased two burial plots in Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY and one in Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, NY.

Because many of these people constituted my Lubin relatives' friends, acquaintances and neighbors, I have recorded these burials and submitted them to JewishGen where they are online in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry. In posts about burials in these plots, I will provide additional information about those interred.